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Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The line about confidentiality is quite different from just one year ago when I engaged with the then Minister, Deputy Calleary, and Ireland was championing the idea that we should add new factors and considerations to be assessed for risk, such as gender equality components. It was not just looking at human rights and the environment but making sure gender and abuses such as gender-based...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The corporate sustainability due diligence directive did not require them to be implemented.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: There is no requirement for implementation, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the witnesses. I agree. Ireland has had actual impact and credibility when it has taken action. I sat through two Oireachtas terms during which we were told we were trying to get people on board very slowly and when nothing was done, no legislation was moved forward and the occupied territories Bill and others were delayed. In fact, the situation deteriorated during that period....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Israeli Bond Programme: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My specific question was not about that ruling but around the risk piece. We were told by Mr. Makhlouf that in the end, whether Israel can pay back bonds was the question the Central Bank was asking. If there is a risk of those bonds being paid back from moneys that are gathered in revenue from illegally occupied territories, where does that come into due diligence? We have heard...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I do not see a mechanism in the omnibus-----

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Perhaps I could just get one line on the climate fund.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Literally-----

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: My question was around it being very interpretable, and concerning with regard to how partners Dr. Burke has highlighted are interpreting the UN Charter. Second, I would go to the question of how. I am not going to focus on the mandate of how it is given, and I do believe it can be given by a General Assembly but I want to know what the mandate is for and what the purposes of it are. I...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 7: In page 9, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: "Report on access to Health (Amendment) Act Card 8. The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas detailing how the Health (Amendment) Act Card can be provided to all persons who were, for any period, resident in an institution...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This amendment seeks to oblige the Minister to prepare a report on access for survivors to the card provided for under the Health (Amendment) Act 1996, known as the HAA card. This issue was raised throughout the Committee Stage debate and is one of the key requests that have been consistently made by survivors. Even in the week since that debate, people have contacted our office outlining...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is a rare instance where we have an example of something that could be best practice, that maybe could be an example for other countries and other places which are dealing with the litany of residential and non-residential institutional abuse. We have something which Ireland wrote: here is an enhanced card. We have gone to the trouble of looking into the details and figuring out how we...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Murphy has acknowledged that a force can be authorised on the basis of a resolution of the General Assembly under the 2006 Act, although he has said these would not be blue hat missions. However, the additional missions that might take place should this legislation remove the triple lock would not be blue hat missions either. Missions can be authorised through the General Assembly...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The definition under the 2006 Act does say "or the General Assembly of the United Nations". It is an "or" not an "and".

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a possibility, however.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is a possibility that has occurred in the past.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Going on to the language of the Bill, we have spoken a lot about peacekeeping, peacekeepers and peace missions, but the Bill is quite wide, not just as to how missions are authorised but also as to their purposes. It also refers to the purpose of "strengthening international security". That is also a phrase that is used. What does strengthening international security not include? Can it...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Is anything excluded?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Mr. Murphy is referring to the term "strengthening international security".